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Improbable Worlds’ dream of revolutionising gaming is fading

The only active game built with technology from one of Britain’s brightest start-ups is being cancelled

Nostos, a video game where players roam a vast “open world”, was launched in December 2019 as a vindication of the cutting-edge technology developed by one of Britain’s brightest prospects: Improbable Worlds.

Improbable, co-founded by 32-year-old Herman Narula, the son of a billionaire construction magnate, hailed the game as a showcase of what developers could do with its software. But 15 months after launch, Nostos has been cancelled.

Nostos is the latest in a string of scrapped games built with Improbable’s SpatialOS software, raising questions about a technology that won a $500m investment from SoftBank in 2017, then the biggest ever investment into a UK start-up.

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